Digital Libraries Initiative :: Cultural Heritage :: 2006 Recommendation
Commission Recommendation
The Commission’s Recommendation of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation, is an update of a Recommendation issued in 2006.
The Recommendation invites Member States to:
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Put in place solid plans for their investments in digitisation and foster
public-private partnerships to share the gigantic cost of digitisation
(recently estimated at € 100 billion). The Recommendation spells out key
principles to ensure that such partnerships are fair and balanced.
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Make 30 million objects available through Europeana by 2015, including
all Europe's masterpieces which are no longer protected by copyright,
and all material digitised with public funding.
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Get more in-copyright material online, by, for example, creating the legal
framework conditions enabling large-scale digitisation and cross-border
accessibility of out-of-commerce works.
- Reinforce their strategies and adapt their legislation to ensure long-term preservation of digital material, by, for example, ensuring the material deposited is not protected by technical measures that impede librarians from preserving it.
Monitoring the progress made by Member States
The Commission is monitoring the progress made by the Member States in implementing the Recommendation. It does so with the help of a Member States' Expert Group, which brings together civil servants and representatives of cultural institutions from each Member State.